Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] small [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was shoved down on the bed , the soldier left and the slattern bustled in with a small manchet loaf and a goblet of wine . |
| 2 | It is not always easy to get up to date information on which to set the quotas , especially in a small area sample . |
| 3 | The industry is concerned that its future trainees should be graduates appropriately equipped as potential managers , especially in the small business sector . |
| 4 | Christina sat down in the small desk chair , her legs unsteady . |
| 5 | Corbett chewed thoughtfully on a small manchet loaf from a basket covered by a white linen cloth . |
| 6 | Toby had reappeared with the tray , and set it down on a small marble table , before Jackson was aware of his presence . |
| 7 | Lee waited until the girl had placed the tray down on a small side table and backed silently from the room . |
| 8 | He sat down on a small bedside chair , leaving Culley and Dawson no other option than to sit on the bed , which they did , side by side , like travellers on a train . |
| 9 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 10 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 11 | He designs four Chanel collections a year , down to the smallest camellia petal and button . |
| 12 | As they reached the door she glanced down at the small flower bed which gardeners in the congregation were trying to cultivate with more optimism than success in the unrewarding soil at the side of the path . |
| 13 | Thomas was motor-crazy , she thought , gazing fondly down at the small dungareed figure . |
| 14 | These radios and other stores were brought in by the small steamer Kuru , which was fitted with a device in her stack to prevent the tell-tale streamer of fumes ; these she released in occasional puffs . |
| 15 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 16 | Newman walked over to a small wall cupboard . |
| 17 | Dapitan is really only an honorary city — with just one bank , one cinema , three blacksmiths , two petrol stations and five firemen ( the last fire was in 1980 ) , it is more like a small country town . |
| 18 | Praising his ability to remember Acts , sections , subsections , qualifying cases and even inspectors ' names , John Williamson , the Society 's chairman , said : ‘ He 's still with the small practitioners group and still sharing his knowledge with his colleagues . |
| 19 | The writer was once with a small London bookseller who unblushingly pointed out a volume of Arctic travel which he was just about to despatch for the full treatment of glaciers , polar bears and seals . |
| 20 | When Cindy returned home to the small Illinois farming community of 39,400 to look up old friends two Thanksgivings ago , the resentment only increased . |
| 21 | As she passed through the lights she turned right into a small service road which ran alongside a few small shops . |
| 22 | Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school . |
| 23 | In the six years since the Mulla Committee 's report , there has been a certain amount of further progress , including increases in the prison budget , some new instructions from the central government to the states , and the setting up of a small policy section within the Ministry of Home Affairs to consider the implementation of the recommendations . |
| 24 | Finally she came up with a small hand mirror and inspected herself in it . |
| 25 | Quickly she went into the next room , returning a moment later with a small linen basket . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , he agreed ; the apothecary rose and disappeared into the back room , emerging a few minutes later with a small leather bag . |
| 27 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 28 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 29 | He adds : ‘ People who get carried away when describing their wares can end up in the small claims court . ’ |
| 30 | Troia Cathedral , begun in 1093 , is built high up in the small hill town and is visible for miles as it stands out of the surrounding flat plain . |